title: Does health care role and experience influence perception of safety culture related to preventing infections?
abstract: Growing evidence reveals the importance of improving safety culture in efforts to eliminate health care-associated infections. This multisite, cross-sectional survey examined the association between professional role and health care experience on infection prevention safety culture at 5 hospitals. The findings suggest that frontline health care technicians are less directly engaged in improvement efforts and safety education than other staff and that infection prevention safety culture varies more by hospital than by staff position and experience.
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181, USA. BBraun@jointcommission.org
authors.forename: Barbara I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: Anthony D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Beverly M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Belton
authors.forename: Louise-Marie
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Dembry
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Morton
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D024382:Professional Role; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States